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Next spring, the First Family will begin to receive solar electricity and solar-heated water from a new solar system that will be installed on the roof of the White House as part of the Obama administration's effort to showcase American solar power technology.

Economists say the Obama administration's stimulus program actually saved the country's economy from plunging into the Great Depression 2.0. Yet that news will likely fail to sway voters who believe the current administration didn't do enough to support the economy.

House Minority Leader John Boehner will call on President Barack Obama to fire Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and adviser Lawrence Summers in a speech today.
In a speech in Ohio due at 8am today, Boehner will attack Geithner and Summers as promoting "19 months of government-as-community organizer," Politico reported.

The Obama administration acknowledged Tuesday that major changes must be made to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but indicated that it supports continuing government guarantees in the mortgage sector. But is that a good idea?

The U.S. government will guarantee a $3.1 billion loan to Ford Motor Co. (F) to help the carmaker export over 200,000 cars to Canada and Mexico.
"Export-Import Bank of the United States will announce a new loan guarantee for Ford that will finance 3.1 billion dollars of export sales," The White House said, according to Agence-France Presse.

The White House released a report on Wednesday that estimates the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is responsible for creating or saving as many as 3.6 million jobs and adding up to 3.2 percentage points to the nation's GDP.

Total nonfarm payroll employment fell by 125,000 in June as the government laid off 225,000 temporary census workers. That was roughly in line with expectations of a 130,000-job drop. Private sector jobs rose by 83,000, below estimates of 110,000.census workers.
Unemployment fell slightly to 9.5 percent, or 14. 6 million people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on its website.

Most health insurers will soon be banned from rejecting children with preexisting medical conditions under provisions contained with new health-care overhaul legislation, the White House said Tuesday. The benefit is just one of several safeguards the administration detailed as officials met privately with state insurance commissioners and insurance company executives.

Fox News and Bloomberg both want Helen Thomas's old front row seat in the White House briefing room because of the symbolism they see in it. But what it actually symbolizes is something very different.

President Barack Obama isn't yet ready to vacate his residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but that didn't stop real-estate website Redfin from recently, if incorrectly, posting that the White House was for sale.

Sounds like a joke, but, no, it's just politics: President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which is tasked with developing a plan to get the deficit under control, is itself being starved of the funds it would need to operate effectively.

How much is the White House worth? Online real estate database Zillow came up with $292,386,000 as of Jan. 18, that is down $15 million since the Obama family took up residence a year ago, and down another $24 million since George W. Bush's final year in office.

Health care could soon be yesterday's battle. Business groups are now bracing themselves for a new fight in Congress against the growing power of unions. At issue is the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), also known as Card Check, a union-backed proposal that would enable workers to join a union if more than 50% of workers at a facility sign membership cards. A government-mandated arbitrator could enact a contract if the employer and the union don't reach an agreement within 120 days.